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Show SECONDHAND DEALER IS FINED B. Denker, a Grant avenue secondhand second-hand dealer, was niicd $10 In Police court this morning for trading a revolver re-volver to a twelve-year-old boy for household articles which the Ind bad stolen from his home. Denker pleaded not guilty to the charge of violating the city ordinance relative to the purchase of goods from minors and the first witness called to the stand to rofute his plea was the youthful vender, Julius Reed, son of Mrs. M. .1 Reed of Qulncy avenue Julius, though small for his years. Is uuusuall) bright and told his story of the transaction in a very I clever comprehensive manner, ans-' ans-' werlng all the questions put to him without the slightest hesitation. He stated that he had been to the Denker store on two different occasions occas-ions and had seen a pistol In the show case, which ho inado inquiries about on his first visit Denker, ho said, told him that he would sell the gun for $1.2fi. Julius said he asked him what he would trade it for and, after some talk, he told the dealer that he had a carpet sweeper, a football foot-ball and a hatchet that he would give for the gun. "The man told me to bring tho things to the store In a gunny sack," Julius testified, "so I went home and got tho things and carried them to the store. Denker took the things and gave mo the gun. He told mo not to say anything about It to anybody " Mrs Reed, tho mother of the boy, was called to the stand and testified to having found the revolver in her son's possession and of taking it away from him. Julius admitted to her that he had taken the carpet Bwceper and other things and traded them for the gun. She had reported the matter to the pollce. Officer William Reast testified to the arrest of Donker and of the .finding .find-ing of the stolen articles In tho store Denker took the stand in his own defense and told of the boy coming to his store and of his Calk about the gun. The dealer said that the revolver revol-ver was broken aud could not bo shot off and for this reason he did not feel that he was endangering the boy'6 life In giving It to him. He stated that the boy had told him that his mother did not care If he made the trade. The city attorney, to disprove dis-prove the man's statement thnt tho gun was broken, cocked and snapped it, showing that It would explode a cartridge were It loaded. |